[hsienmaneja]

Unchecked algorithms at scale have already had a significant and often detrimental impact on society.

A solution is to break up and/or regulate FAANG sufficiently such that algorithmic regulations do not impede David’s from reasonably competing.

Or, such regulations could also be targeted at bigger players past a certain size, and not apply as strictly to smaller scale applications. It is the broad scale application of an algorithm that often facilitates its ability to be effective, after all.

[Kaveren]

Alternatively, we could stop pushing for government regulation of absolutely everything considerably possible. The desired culture of micromanagement is not productive.

The phrase "unchecked algorithms at scale" does not mean anything, it's just written to look scary.

Now the discussion of breaking up (or regulating) tech companies appears to have expanded to Apple and Netflix (re: FAANG) for some reason.

[AkshatM]

Do you have an example of 'an unchecked algorithm at scale'?

[m-p-3]

Your Facebook news feed?

AFAIK, no one else outside of people working at Facebook can see how the algorithm decides what should be on top of your feed.